No Benefits: WHO discontinues hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir trial for Covid-19 treatment MD Bureau5 July 2020 3:45 PM ISTGeneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Saturday that it was discontinuing hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir arms for its...
First reported case of potentially fatal chloroquine induced arrhythmia in COVID-19 Hina Zahid22 Jun 2020 9:30 AM ISTPhiladelphia- Researchers at TelAviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, have reported the first case of life-threatening arrhythmia TdP in a patient with...
COVID-19 Battle: Govt removes export ban on anti-malarial drug HCQ Ruchika Sharma19 Jun 2020 2:46 PM IST"The export policy of Hydroxychloroquine API (active pharmaceutical ingredients) and its formulations from prohibited to free with immediate effect,"...
Don't administer remdesivir with HCQS or CQ, FDA warns of drug interaction Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli16 Jun 2020 12:45 PM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued warning to health care providers about a newly discovered potential drug interaction related to the...
USFDA ends emergency use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 MD Bureau16 Jun 2020 12:37 AM ISTThe drugs are traditionally used to treat malaria and certain autoimmune conditions, including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. These can be taken to...
Manufacturers to sell 20pc HCQ in domestic market, rest can be exported: Mansukh Mandaviya Ruchika Sharma12 Jun 2020 2:46 PM IST"When the COVID crisis started we had two units making Hydroxychloroquine, now we have 12 and production is more than the requirement. Hence, the...
DoP nod to lifting of ban on export of HCQ: D V Sadananda Gowda Ruchika Sharma11 Jun 2020 1:50 PM ISTManufacturers except SEZ/EOU Units have to supply 20 percent production in the domestic market," the minister of chemicals and fertilisers said in a...
HCQS safe and effective treatment option for Rosacea, finds study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli7 Jun 2020 6:26 PM ISTA new study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology has revealed that Hydroxychloroquine is a safe and effective...
UK terms Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients as useless, halts trial Ruchika Sharma6 Jun 2020 10:00 AM IST"This is not a treatment for COVID-19. It doesn't work," Martin Landray, an Oxford University professor who is co-leading the RECOVERY trial, told...
Lancet retracts major hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 paper, sparks a scandal MD Bureau5 Jun 2020 6:36 AM ISTSoon after the study was published, large randomised trials of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine came to a sudden halt.
WHO includes hydroxychloroquine in solidarity trial again MD Bureau4 Jun 2020 12:16 AM ISTNew Delhi- The World Health Organisation on Wednesday said that anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) will return to the solidarity trial for...
New test method can offer safer dosages of hydroxychloroquine in SLE Hina Zahid1 Jun 2020 5:45 PM ISTResearchers have developed a new method to measure levels of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in patients with the rheumatic disease...
